Psalm 93-95

New King James Version

The Eternal Reign of the Lord

93 The ^(A)Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;
The Lord is clothed,
^(B)He has girded Himself with strength.
Surely the world is established, so that it cannot be ^[a]moved.
²^(C)Your throne is established from of old;
You are from everlasting.

³The floods have ^[b]lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice;
The floods lift up their waves.
⁴^(D)The Lord on high is mightier
Than the noise of many waters,
Than the mighty waves of the sea.

⁵Your testimonies are very sure;
Holiness adorns Your house,
O Lord, ^[c]forever.

God the Refuge of the Righteous

94 O Lord God, ^(E)to whom vengeance belongs—
O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
²Rise up, O ^(F)Judge of the earth;
^[d]Render punishment to the proud.
³Lord, ^(G)how long will the wicked,
How long will the wicked triumph?

⁴They ^(H)utter speech, and speak insolent things;
All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.
⁵They break in pieces Your people, O Lord,
And afflict Your heritage.
⁶They slay the widow and the stranger,
And murder the fatherless.
⁷^(I)Yet they say, “The Lord does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob ^[e]understand.”

⁸Understand, you senseless among the people;
And you fools, when will you be wise?
⁹^(J)He who planted the ear, shall He not hear?
He who formed the eye, shall He not see?
¹⁰He who ^[f]instructs the ^[g]nations, shall He not correct,
He who teaches man knowledge?
¹¹The Lord ^(K)knows the thoughts of man,
That they are futile.

¹²Blessed is the man whom You ^(L)instruct, O Lord,
And teach out of Your law,
¹³That You may give him ^[h]rest from the days of adversity,
Until the pit is dug for the wicked.
¹⁴For the Lord will not ^[i]cast off His people,
Nor will He forsake His inheritance.
¹⁵But judgment will return to righteousness,
And all the upright in heart will follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evildoers?
Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?
¹⁷Unless the Lord had been my help,
My soul would soon have settled in silence.
¹⁸If I say, “My foot slips,”
Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up.
¹⁹In the multitude of my anxieties within me,
Your comforts delight my soul.

²⁰Shall ^(M)the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law,
Have fellowship with You?
²¹They gather together against the life of the righteous,
And condemn ^(N)innocent blood.
²²But the Lord has been my defense,
And my God the rock of my refuge.
²³He has brought on them their own iniquity,
And shall ^[j]cut them off in their own wickedness;
The Lord our God shall cut them off.

A Call to Worship and Obedience

95 Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!
Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.
²Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;
Let us shout joyfully to Him with ^(O)psalms.
³For ^(P)the Lord is the great God,
And the great King above all gods.
⁴^[k]In His hand are the deep places of the earth;
The heights of the hills are His also.
⁵^(Q)The sea is His, for He made it;
And His hands formed the dry land.

⁶Oh come, let us worship and bow down;
Let ^(R)us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
⁷For He is our God,
And ^(S)we are the people of His pasture,
And the sheep ^[l]of His hand.

^(T)Today, if you will hear His voice:
⁸“Do not harden your hearts, as in the ^[m]rebellion,
^(U)As in the day of ^[n]trial in the wilderness,
⁹When ^(V)your fathers tested Me;
They tried Me, though they ^(W)saw My work.
¹⁰For ^(X)forty years I was ^[o]grieved with that generation,
And said, ‘It is a people who go astray in their hearts,
And they do not know My ways.’
¹¹So ^(Y)I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”